Intel Turbo Boost has my laptop running at 3300 MHz most of the time. My power settings are maxed out, so it stays there most of the time while I'm browsing the Internet and stuff, but once I run a ...

I am reading an article bemoaning i7-5820K Will Only Have 28 PCI-Express Lanes compared to its sibling processors having 40 lanes.
Isn't 28 lanes already too many? How many lanes would a normal home ...

Why is the i7-5960x only 3.0Ghz, while the i7-5930k is 3.5Ghz? I was really looking forward to the 8-core intel i7, until I saw the stock clock speed was lower than it's 6-core counter part. Is there ...

Hi i just had a query in my mind-
Do i really need to add SSD to OC ...I mean does it make any difference on the perfomance of the processor ?
I would like to overclock my i7 and i have already spend ...

As far as i know, there is some Intel's library for RDRAND instruction https://software.intel.com/en-us/blogs/2012/09/14/rdrand-library-now-available-for-apple-os-x
But does OS X kernel really use it ...

I would like to to know if there exists any vital differences between Intel's Core i7-4770 and Core i7-4790 apart from the clock speed.
Also, why are there so many processors coming out so quickly ?
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I purched a gaming comupter from avatar This one
It randomly started shutting itself off out of nowhere. I checked it's temps using speedfan and temp2 is 127C. Basically it shows a fire icon beside ...

I have two system one has a Xeon E5-1650 CPU, 24GB of RAM, and a 7200rpm hard drive. The other system which is a Lenovo G510 laptop, has a core i7-4700MQ CPU, 4GB of RAM, and 5400rmp hard drive.
The ...

While searching for good desktop for software development I came across many configuration.I become confuse over different thing as I don't have detail knowledge of Hardware.
Difference between Core ...

I want to know why the price of a Xeon CPU and a similar Core i7 CPU is so different. The CPU clock is more or less the same. I want to know this because I want to have an understanding of what kind ...

I just bought a new Acer Aspire V7-582PG which has an Intel Corporation Dual Band Wireless-N 7260 (rev 73) Wifi card.
In windows, everything works fine, but using linux, the internet speed is quite ...

I have to run Mac OS on virtual box for a class and it keeps giving me errors stating
"VT-x/AMD-V hardware acceleration not available on your system. Certain guests (e.g. OS/2 and QNX) require this ...

There are lots of i7 motherboards that support 64GB memory, and even one that supports 128GB:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813130681
But I read that i7 CPUs can't access more ...

Turbo Boost driver cannot start in my Dell XPS L501X. I updated the driver, re-installed it and when I open the device manager, it comes up with this error: This device cannot start. (Code 10). BIOS ...

I don't know if this is the right place for this question, but I'll give it a shot.
I have a Dell Inspiron 17R 5721. It's supposed to be using switchable graphics. It has an Intel HD 4000 and a Radeon ...

I understand that Core i-7 is better than Core i-3, but how do they compare across generations. Simply put, can it be always said that a Core i-? of higher generation is always better in performance ...

A few days ago I started experiencing a weird issue - one core was stuck at 100% doing some kernel stuff. This problem is NOT OS specific: it occurs in Windows 7 (including Safe Mode), Ubuntu 12.04 ...